Martins the last Eagle to arrive Calabar

Contrary to reports made available by the media department of the Super Eagles, Obafemi Martins actually breezed into the Transcorp Hotel camp base of the team around 1:15pm.

Clad in a T-shirt and jeans with a black canvas made his way to the reception of the Hotel looking very tired after a long trip from his new base in the United States where he just signed for Seatle Sounders.

Martins did not only miss the media chat, he was conspicuously absent at the reception for the Eagles at the Governor’s Office.

The reason SportingLife gathered was to allow the self-styled Weapon of Mass Destruction to rest well enough for him to participate in the Wednesday’s evening training session having just arrived the camp barely three hours before the training.

SportingLife can report that Eagles’ media officer, Ben Alaiya earlier Tuesday told journalists that Martins had arrived alongside Mikel but were only told to remain in their hotel rooms.

Mikel was not also around to field questions from journalists.

Defending the duo for their inability to come Eagles’ head coach, Stephen Keshi said: “Martins is still on his way and probably in the next few minutes he should be here at the hotel. Either he is landing or he is about to land. Mikel on his part we just wanted him to take a rest. That was the reason both missed this gathering.”